These smokestacks are from the TICU solid waste treatment facility in Issy Les Moulineaux, just southwest of Paris. (mollivan_jon/flickr)
The Big Heat
June 08, 2007
The G8 summit in Germany this week brought new rhetoric from the United States about climate change. President Bush seemed to signal a willingness to cooperate with international partners, after nearly a decade of ignoring international agreements like the Kyoto Protocol. Andrew Revkin, environment reporter for The New York Times, looks at how Bush has warmed to a new approach and the unlikely influence of an old Bush nemesis, Al Gore.


